Can emergency medical services personnel effectively place and use the supraglottic Airway Laryngopharyngeal Tube (SALT) airway?

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 359-365

  Bledsoe, Bryan E ^a   Slattery, David E ^a   Lauver, Russell ^a   Forred, Wesley ^b   Johnson, Larry ^c   Rigo, Gino ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University Medical Center of Southern Nevada   (United States)

^c MedicWest Ambulance   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; emergency medical services; EMT; extraglottic airway; paramedic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CADAVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NEVADA; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 79957656387     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2011.561410     Document Type: Article

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